Valley of Ashes Aftershave Splash

$15.00

Aftershave splash in our high-quality base. Alcohol-free.

Welcome to the Valley of Ashes.

The second r/wetshaving exclusive installment of the Gatsby theme is coming May 11th from Southern Witchcrafts. It will not resemble its predecessor, West Egg, to say the least. While West Egg is a exuberant celebration with effervescent bubbly, Valley of Ashes represents something altogether different. Optimism and conspicuous consumption were present in West Egg, but despair and hopelessness find a home in the Valley of Ashes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald described it as, “[A] fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.”

If you’re not wealthy enough to find yourself in either West Egg or East Egg, you may land here…huddled among the industrial factories spewing ash and generating wealth found in fancy places like the Eggs. Valley of Ashes provides the stage for a pivotal intersection in the novel. A simple gas station. A speeding car. A dead body. And seething revenge.